I will NEVER understand why an item that costs $10 to manufacture fetches a price tag of $419! Nor will I ever understand stupid Americans (or anyone else) who will pay the cost. No wonder this country is in such sad shape.

Brett Wagner,and that is why companies get their own designs CNC manufactured in Taiwan or China for less than a quarter of the cost for a virtually identical item made in The US.CNC manufacture means the labor cost per unit is almost zero.If there is more than 15 minutes of machining in total,including bolting and unbolting the billet to the bed I would be amazed.If only CNC machines could spit out jobs for people as fast as shiny lumps.

Eh, I’m with Brett. An injection moulder could make something CLOSE out of shiny chromed plastic pretty cheap but even if I contract an overseas company to CNC mill them out of billet the market is so flooded with Harley air cleaners I don’t see economies of scale making it worth the trouble. I know that it costs a lot more than 10 bucks to make, and profit isn’t a dirty word. If Precision Billet makes something people want they should make some money selling it. For me personally I just want performance gains out of a 400 dollar intake.